Friday, July 13, 2018

Currently Reading ~ Beautiful Day

I am on Goodreads and every year they have a Reading Challenge that I have participated in the past couple of years. I have mixed feelings about this challenge because when I set the number of books I will read over 12 I can't quite reach and its frustrating. However when I set the goal of books lower I read like crazy and meet or surpass my goal. I think subconsciously I am sabotaging myself. I truly love to read in my spare time and love the adventures I go on or the new characters I meet.

I am currently reading Book #8 for my challenge. It's from a familiar author, Elin Hilderbrand.  I love her stories and the settings for them. I some day want to visit the East Coast and the towns she mentions in her books. But until then I will live vicariously through her books.


What are you currently reading? Please share

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Reading Challenge Book #7


I am slowly reaching my reading goal for this year, 2018.  My goal is 24 books for the year.

Book #7 was written by Meg Cabot, Size 12 is Not Fat.  I have read several of her books but its been awhile since I had picked one up.  This book did not disappoint. I love how easy it was to read and be swept away into the lives of the characters. This is book one in a series of I believe five. So I will be reading the rest of the books soon.

From Goodreads:

Heather Wells Rocks!

Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two — and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen — not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives — even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective! 

But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.

Have you read this book? If not, I hope you might consider it. 

What are you currently reading?

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